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AN earthquake of considerable severity shook the island of New Britain, which is to the north-east of New Guinea, early on January 14. The epicentre appears to have been near Keravat, where houses collapsed. Keravat is some twenty-five miles from the port of Rabaul, where some faulting occurred, damaging the harbour. An earthquake of intensity 7 or 8 on the Rossi-Fore l scale was felt at Rabaul on September 12, 1940, at 11.20 p.m. local time, the shock lasting for some three minutes and then decreasing in severity. Seventy-two distinct tremors were felt between then and 8.30 a.m. on September 13. The epicentre was judged to be about 70 miles south-south-east of Rabaul, and the shock was severely felt in the Kokopo District and at Wide Bay, Pondo, Namatanai and Buka.
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Recent Earthquakes. Nature 147, 114 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147114c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147114c0